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" In short the manners, fashions, amusements, vices and follies of the metropolis now make their way to the remotest corners of the land as readily and speedily, along the turnpike road, as, of old, Milton's Sin and Death, by means of their marvellous bridges... "
Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse - Page 57
by George Colman - 1787
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Annual Register, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 648 pages
...amufements, vices, and follies of the metropolis, now male tl.eir way to the remoU'ft cor' new of die laud, as readily and fpeedily, along the turnpike road,...Milton's Sin and Death,' by means of their marvellous britl^o over the Cham, from the infernal regions to our world. . r The effects ot this eafy commu-i...
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Annual Register, Volume 4

Edmund Burke - History - 1762 - 666 pages
...that he can go from London to Edinburgh in \ z hours. In ftiort, the manners, famions, amulements, vices, and follies of the metropolis, now make their...readily and fpeedily, along the turnpike- road, as, of oW, Milton's Sin and Death, by means of their marvellous bridge over the Chaos, from the infernal regions...
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The Oxford Magazine, Volume 8

1772 - 616 pages
...that he can go from London to Edingburgh in и hours. In ihort, the manners, fafhiens, ainufements, vices, and follies of the metropolis, now make their way to the remotcft Corners of the land, as readily and fpeedily along the turnpikc«road, as, oí old, ^MUton's...
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A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England

Edwin A. Pratt - Communication and traffic - 1912 - 552 pages
...follies of the metropolis now make their way to the remotest corners of the land as readily and speedily, along the turnpike road, as, of old, Milton's Sin and Death, by means of their marvellous bridges over the Chaos from the infernal regions to our world. " The effects of this easy communication...
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A History of Inland Transport and Communication in England

Edwin A. Pratt - Communication and traffic - 1912 - 552 pages
...be with his mistress before she dreams of his arrival. In short the manners, fashions, amusements, vices and follies of the metropolis now make their way to the remotest corners of the land as readily and speedily, along the turnpike road, as, of old, Milton's...
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Nature and the Country in English Poetry of the First Half of the Eighteenth ...

C. E. de Haas - Country life in literature - 1928 - 334 pages
...new communication between the several parts of our island' and 'the manners, fashions, amusements, vices and follies of the metropolis now make their way to the remotest corners of the land.' * The desire to travel was much stimulated and a great impulse was naturally...
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Nature and the Country in English Poetry of the First Half of the Eighteenth ...

C. E. de Haas - Country life in literature - 1928 - 322 pages
...new communication between the several parts of our island' and 'the manners, fashions, amusements, vices and follies of the metropolis now make their way to the remotest corners of the land.' ' The desire to travel was much stimulated and a great impulse was naturally...
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The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment

Roy Porter - History - 2000 - 776 pages
...a thing of the past thanks to 'the amendment of the roads . . . the manners, fashions, amusements, vices, and follies of the metropolis, now make their way to the remotest corners of the land'. 82 The result was a 'global village' effect, netting within the national...
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